Funnel

Definition: Funnel

Funnel

Noun

1. A conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends.

2. A conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth.

3. Smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship).

Verb

1. Move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "funnel" was first used: 1402. (references)

Etymology: Funnel \Fun"nel\, noun. [from Old English expression funel, fonel, probably through Old French fr, from Latin expression fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, from infundere to pour in; in in fundere to pour; compare to Armor. founil funnel, Welsh ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse, transitive verb]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Personal Care & Hotels

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Synonym: Funnel

Airpipe

Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack.

Concavity

Adjective: depressed; Verb: alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, stove in; retiring; retreating; cavernous; porous; (with holes); infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform; funnel shaped, bell shaped; campaniform, capsular; vaulted, arched.

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Crosswords: Funnel

Jason, we're gonna need a jar and a funnel. (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman)

Grey Funnel Line, The (performing artist: Prior/Tabor)

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Books

• Abaft the Funnel (reference)

• Funnel Weavers (The Library of Spiders) (reference)

• Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy, 1900-1970 (reference)

• The Funnel of Gold (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Funnel Weaver (reference)

• Funnel Zone (+ Bonus Interview) [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Norpro 6-Inch Stainless Steel Funnel with Detachable Strainer (reference)

• Norpro Stainless Steel Wide-Mouth Funnel (reference)

• WMF Vino Stainless Steel 4-Way Funnel (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Tornado at beginning of life - condensation funnel has not yet reached ground. However, dust cloud at surface indicates tornado touchdown. During "Sound Chase", a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Tornado with large dust cloud obscuring funnel shape. During "Sound Chase", a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Mature stage of large tornado. Clear slot in clouds illuminates funnel. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Funnel cloud - a tornado that isn't on the ground. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

A funnel cloud approaching the ground. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Rope-like funnel cloud. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Project Vortex - a funnel cloud is observed. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Fitting out at the Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943. The unit outboard with part of her funnel on deck is probably USS Orca (AVP-49). The unit in the lower left is USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), and the unit in the lower right with the crane is USS Mobjack (AGP-7). The old paddle-wheel ferry is named West Seattle. Credit: NAVY.

At anchor with a steam launch alongside, circa the 1880s. Note the sheet anchor amidships, just below the forward funnel, and this ship's distinctive 15-foot figurehead. Credit: NAVY.

A black column of smoke poured from the funnel of the Dauntless, and the race for life began. Credit: Library of Congress.

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You must choose the pure oil and you must be careful when you pour it in not to overflow it, not to pour in more than the funnel can hold

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Health

The outer ear collects sound waves and works like a funnel to send them through a narrow tube (ear canal) that leads inside the ear. At the end of the ear canal is the eardrum (tympanic membrane). (references)

Business

Asymmetric necklines, three-quarter length sleeves, fitted shirts as a jacket; puffed sleeves, drawstring tops as layering pieces, tube tops, funnel necks, and the layering of sheer cotton T-shirts, tunics. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

The RPA will funnel private funds into the development of new railways and will have the power to acquire land by compulsory purchase. (references)

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Expressions using "funnel": approach funnel ♦ Funnel box ♦ Funnel Chest ♦ funnel cloud ♦ funnel column ♦ funnel shape ♦ Funnel stay ♦ funnel web ♦ pouring funnel ♦ separating funnel ♦ Thistle funnel. Additional references.

Beginning with "funnel": funnel-crest rosebud orchid, funnel-hole, funnel-shape, funnel-shaped, funnel-web.

Albanian

tubacion (drain, duct, pipes, piping, tubing), oxhak metalik, kanalizoj (canalize, channel), kanalizohem, hinkë (hopper), gyp (canal, channel, chimney, conduit, duct, fistula, pipe, stack, trumpet, tube, vent), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مركز (center, center on, centered, centralize, centre, centre on, concentrated, fastened, fixed, focus, localise, locality, localize, location, office, position, post, seat, settled, site, situation, spot, station), ‏مدخنة (brazier, chimney, smokestack, stack), ‏قمع (bridle, check, crush, put down, quash, quell, repress, repression, restrain, stamp down, subdue, suppress, suppression), ‏تقمع, ‏جرى في قمع, ‏إنبوب (pipe, tube). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фуния, димотходна тръба. (various references)

Chinese 

漏斗 . (various references)

Czech

trychtýř (crater), nálevka (filler). (various references)

Danish

fag (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section, speciality), tuba (tube), tragt (entrance, feed hopper, hopper, inlet tray, intake hopper, loading hopper, opening, pit, receiving hopper, trough), stopgarn (flapper), sprung (lease-shed, shed), sorteringssluse, slugt (gulch), skypumpesoejle (funnel column, trunk), skorsten (chimney, fireplace, hearth, smokestack), hvirvelsoejle (funnel column, trunk), hældetud (nozzle, pour spout, pouring spout, spout). (various references)

Dutch

trechter (crater, funnel column, hopper, pendant cloud, pit, tornado cloud, trunk, tuba). (various references)

Esperanto

funelo. (various references)

Faeroese

trakt. (various references)

Farsi 

قیف (Hopper), شکل قیفی داشتن , دودکش (Chimney, Shaft, Stack, Tube, Uptake), بادگیر (Louver, Ventilator, Windward). (various references)

Finnish

vire (cocked, tune tuned), torvimainen (tubular), suutin (nozzle, tool), suppilopilvi (funnel column, trunk), suppilo (prawn trap), savutorvi (chimney), savupiippu (chimney, smokestack), lajitteluränni, johdosaita. (various references)

French

entonnoir (pouring funnel), cheminée. (various references)

German

trichter (bell, cone, crater, filler, funnels, hopper, sinkhole), schornstein (chimney, smokestack, stack). (various references)

Greek 

χωνί (boot, grain bin, grain tank, hopper, tanker), φουγάρο (smoke stack, smokestack). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוביל (carrier, conductor, conveyor, guide, leading), משפך (infundibulum), מעשנה (chimney, louver, smokestack, stack), לרכז (concentrate, condense, focus, mass), אפרכסת (auricle, ear cap, ear piece, receiver). (various references)

Hungarian

tölcsér (charging boot, cone, cornet, crater, filler, hopper, horn). (various references)

Indonesian

corong (microphone, mine shaft, quill, shaft), cerocok. (various references)

Italian

imbuto (bell, pouring funnel, trumpet), fumaiolo (chimney, fireplace, fireside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

漏斗 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろうと, じょうご (drinker's habits, heavy drinker, redundancy, syllable repetition). (various references)

Korean 

깔때기. (various references)

Manx

tunneyder, funnyl. (various references)

Norwegian

trakt. (various references)

Pig Latin

unnelfay.(various references)

Portuguese

funil (filler, stovepipe), chaminé (chimney, fireplace, hearth, lamp-chimney). (various references)

Romanian

pâlnie (cone, crater, tun dish), coş vulcanic (neck), coş de fum. (various references)

Russian 

дымовая труба (chimney-stalk, smokestack, smoke-stack, stack). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uputiti (direct, initiate, refer, send), levak (left handed, left-hander, southpaw), dimnjak (chimney, smokestack, stack). (various references)

Spanish

embudo (trick). (various references)

Sranan

trekti. (various references)

Swedish

tratt (entrance, opening), skorsten (chimney, chimney stack, chimneypot, smokestack, stack). (various references)

Thai

กรวย, ปล่องควัน (flue, stack). (various references)

Turkish

yanardağ bacası, huni biçimi vermek, huni (cone), havalandırma deliği (bleeder, venthole), baca gibi yapmak, baca (chimney, chimney stack, flue, pipe, shaft, smokestack, stack), akıtmak (disembogue, drain, drain away, drain off, drip, pour, shed, spill, stream, trickle, weep). (various references)

Turkmen 

guяguз. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтруб (cone, mouth, ochrea), комин (chimney), лійка (watering can, watering pot), просочуватися (filter, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, ooze, percolate, seep, soak, soak through, transpire), димар (chimney, chimney stack, flue, tunnel). (various references)

Welsh

ffumer (chimney), twnffed. (various references)

ninda. (various references)

canalibus, infundibulum. (various references)

enfounilh,. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "funnel": funneled, funnelform, funneling, funnelled, funnelling, funnels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Funnel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fennellqc, fennen, Fournel, fune, funel, funen, funerl, funey, Funkel, Funna, funnely, funner, funni, funnil, furnel, gunel, Gunnel, unnel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flue, fuel, lune.

-3 letters: elf, fen, feu, flu, fun, leu, nun.

-4 letters: ef, el, en, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: funnels, nonfuel.

+2 letters: funneled, influent, unfallen.

+3 letters: confluent, engulfing, funneling, funnelled, influence, influents, influenza, unfeeling.

+4 letters: confluence, confluents, endosulfan, engulfment, funnelform, funnelling, influenced, influences, influenzal, influenzas, manfulness, meaningful, nonfluency, sinfulness, unaffluent, uneventful, unfindable, unfoldment, unfriendly, uninflated.

+5 letters: confluences, endosulfans, engulfments, floundering, fundamental, gainfulness, influencing, influential, mindfulness, needfulness, nonaffluent, painfulness, songfulness, tunefulness, undefinable, unfaltering, unfeelingly, unfeignedly, unfoldments, uninflected.